 tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, —...  Notes and Queries - Page 3801857Full view - About this book
 | Paul Epstein, Richard Schechner - 1978 - 84 pages
...shall be King. MALCOLM. Hush, no more. Scene 17. Makbeth. MAKBETH. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly if the assassination could trammel up the consequences and catch, with his surcease, success. But in these cases we still have judgment here.... | |
 | F. R. Leavis - 1986 - 380 pages
...relating him to Shakespeare should be plain. I remember this in Macbeth - 'If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well / It were done quickly: if the assassination...Could trammel up the consequence, and catch / With his surcease success . . . ' You see that as we pass with Macbeth from the one word to the other, 'surcease'... | |
 | John R. Briggs - 1988 - 82 pages
...and steps into a pool of light DS, on the large platform.) MACBETH. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly; if the assassination...could trammel up the consequence, and catch with his surcease success; but that this blow might be the be-all and the end-all. Here, but here, upon this... | |
 | Kenneth Pennington - 2023 - 356 pages
...authority of the prince in the late Middle Ages owes much to them. The Pazzi Conspiracy and the Jurists If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success. — Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7 Machiavelli was nine years old in 1478 when... | |
 | Mark Jay Mirsky - 1994 - 182 pages
...devils him, bends back belief to disbelief. Macbeth begins by juggling with theological reflection. ... If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success, that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pages
...extract is taken from Macbetb's soliloquy in the last scene of Act I: If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If the assassination...Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success — that but this blow Might be the be-all and end-all — here But here, upon this... | |
 | Lindsay Price - 2001 - 40 pages
...enter and exit bearing trays to and from the banquet hall. MACBETH: If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination...Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...state, is a necessary evil"— Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 10 Jan. 1776. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly; if the assassination...Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 pages
...He is all nervy and dithery. Later on, again talking of the murder: If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination...Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success . . . (l. vii. i) You cannot speak it smoothly; you get tied up with the dentals... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Dinah Jurksaitis - 2003 - 156 pages
...divers SERVANTS with dishes and service. Then enter MACBETH MACBETH If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If the assassination...Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all - here, 5 But here, upon... | |
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